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Internet of Things

Room 1/2

Software and Systems

Engineering Room 3/4

Developing and Deploying Secure

SystemsRoom E/F

Power and Energy Room G/H

Computational Intelligence

Room 5

Biotechnologies Board Room

(upstairs)

Financial and Future Tools

Room 6

7:30 Welcome Address: Diane Bowen Collier, IEEE MetroCon 2018 General Chair

7:45 -

8:25

Plenary Address : “The Texas Central High-Speed Train - Accelerating the Texas Economy” Alan D. Greer, PE, Texas Central

8:30 - 9:25

Smart Cities - Strategies and Initiatives for

Implementing Society 5.0

Matthew Bailey Arrow Electronics

Advanced Problems in Systems Engineering Jeff Cohen 321 Gang

AI and Block Chain Jeff Daniels

Lockheed Martin Ben Amaba and

Abbey Hagin IBM

Big Data Analytics for Renewable Energy

Grid Integration Jie Zhang

UTD

The Turing Test: Why Computers Still Can’t

Understand Us Lauren Kunze

Pandorabots, Inc.

Ligandomics: A Revolutionary

Approach for Drug Discovery

Iok-Hou Pang UNT Health Science

Center

Putting Your Retirement Plan to

Work William Swoboda

Edward Jones

9:25 Break - Student Poster Presentations –

The Student Poster Competition is open to IEEE Student Members who are either undergraduate or graduate students at the time of the competition

10:00-10:55

Bell’s Way Forward On-Demand Mobility

Mike McNair Bell Flight

Self Driving Cars - Are We on the

Right Road?

John H. Robb UTA

Keyless Signature Infrastructure for Secure Systems

Engineering Brian McFarland

Guardtime Federal, LLC

How Advanced Analytics is Impacting Engineering @ Oncor

Hagen Haentsch Oncor

Semantic Mapping Based on Vision

Justin Hardt University of Texas at

Austin, RoboCup

A New Translaminar Autonomous System

Tasneem Putliwala Sharma

UNT Health Science Center

Insurance Strategies Alysia Bell

Merrill Lynch

11:00 - 11:55

Mesh Networking and IoT Use Cases for ilumi MeshTek,

Bluetooth 5.0, Beacons Michael Bigbee

ilumi solutions, Inc.

Tomorrow’s Flight Control Systems and

Quantum Inspirations to New

Approaches Chris Elliott

Lockheed Martin

Threat Hunting with Splunk

Richard Voninsk Splunk, Inc

Energy Storage in Power Grids Bill Muston

Oncor

Intelligent Agents Ed Safford

IEEE Lockheed Martin,

Retired

Metabolic Health Screening using Compact NMR

Ina Mishra UNT Health Science

Center

Estate Planning Strategies

Gray Haynes The Wynne Law Firm

12:00 - 1:15

Luncheon - Keynote Address: “Arlington on the Move!” An Engineering Perspective of Major Projects Jeff Williams, PE, President, Graham Associates, Inc. and Mayor, City of Arlington

Student Poster Awards: Derrick Webster

1:15 Exhibits and Networking

2:00 -

3:10

Overcoming

Challenges to Support

Smart Agriculture and

Rural IoT Applications

Pete DeNagy

Internet of Things

America, LLC

Cognitive and Context Aware

Security Suku Nair

SMU AT&T Center for Visualization,

SMU

Using Discovery Analytics in Computer

Security Analysis Eric Dull Deloitte

Generation Reliability and Safety

Shiuan-Hau, Eric Rau,

and Asher Choudhary Shermco Industries,

Inc.

The Mystery of Quantum

Teleportation Oscar Garcia

University of North Texas

Applications of Carbon

Nanomaterials in Biological Imaging and Drug Delivery

Anton Naumov TCU

Finally Perfecting Network Security

Daryl Adams Spirent

3:10 Break in Exhibits Area

3:45- 4:40

IoT, Low Power Wide Area Networks,

LTE-M and NB-IoT - IoT Wireless Solutions

Ed Hightower IoT and Beyond

Affordability Does Not Tell You What You Get For Your

Money Teresa McCarthy Lockheed Martin

Risk Management, Applying an IT Centric Process to Real-Time Embedded Systems Margee Herring and

Jermone Edge Lockheed Martin

ERCOT Nodal Market Feiran Huang

Luminant

Explainable AI Legal Ramifications

Robert Kantner Jones Day Law Firm

Using Grapes to Fight Against Free Radicals in the Eye: Cataract

Prevention Hongli Wu

UNT Health Science Center

Financial Crisis: 10 Years Later

Tyler Davis Merrill Lynch

5:00 Reception

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Hurst Conference Center, Hurst, Texas

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Conference Tracks: Internet of Things

Software and Systems Engineering

Developing and Deploying Secure Systems

Power and Energy Computational Intelligence

Biotechnologies Financial and Future Tools

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